Valencia chief Miguel Ángel Corona has welcomed new signing Selim Amallah.

The midfielder has arrived on-loan from Real Valladolid.

Corona said: "He is a footballer who, with his arrival, will give us many options and many variants from the midfield to the attack, both on the wings and through the middle. I am sure that he is going to help us a lot and in many positions. Spain has already seen Selim, and people already know what he is capable of doing. We have also seen him at the World Cup in Qatar, and I know how eager he is to wear this shirt. I'm sure that Valencia CF fans will enjoy his football. We welcome him here.

"This Amallah operation has been done now because we have obtained an option to buy him, something that was vital for us. We consider it to be a good operation. Why wasn't it done before, when there was talk of a swap with Real Valladolid for Marcos André? Because we wanted to have an option to buy the player and we considered that we also had to value Marcos André, whom we have transferred."

He added: "Obviously, we are going to wait for the transfer window to end to make a final assessment. We have had many operations for players to leave, plus those that left last year. In other cases we have rejected offers for important players because we believed it was important that they not leave."